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Supporting and enhancing student agency in feedback processes: using a novel feedback tool in the creative industries

Presentation / Conference
Cochrane, R., & Firth, R. (2021, June)
Supporting and enhancing student agency in feedback processes: using a novel feedback tool in the creative industries. Paper presented at Assessment in Higher Education (AHE) Conference 2020, Manchester
This paper focuses on students’ use of a novel programme-focused feedback tool we have developed and utilised across Product Design at Edinburgh Napier University. In the cont...

Case study: Supporting and enhancing student agency in feedback processes: using a novel feedback tool in the creative industries

Book Chapter
Cochrane, R., & Firth, R. (2021)
Case study: Supporting and enhancing student agency in feedback processes: using a novel feedback tool in the creative industries. In L. Hunt, & . D. Chalmers (Eds.), University Teaching in Focus: A Learning-centred Approach. (2). Australia: Routledge
Cochrane, R., & Firth, R. (in press). Case study: Supporting and enhancing student agency in feedback processes: using a novel feedback tool in the creative industries. In L. ...

Creative Thinking Level 6 Summary

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Cochrane, R., & Heathcote, K. (2021)
Creative Thinking Level 6 Summary. Edinburgh
A new qualification in Creative Thinking offered at SCQF Level 6 in schools across Scotland. Embedding contemporary teaching and learning theory to provide the transferable, ...

The Deaf Heritage Collective: Collaboration with Critical Intent

Journal Article
Jamieson, K., Discepoli, M., & Leith, E. (2021)
The Deaf Heritage Collective: Collaboration with Critical Intent. Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 15(1), 1-26
The paper reflects upon the Deaf Heritage Collective, a collaborative project led by Edinburgh Napier University’s Design for Heritage team and Heriot Watt’s Centre for Transl...

Souvenir authenticity in the additive manufacturing age

Journal Article
Anastasiadou, C., & Vettese, S. (2021)
Souvenir authenticity in the additive manufacturing age. Annals of Tourism Research, 89, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2021.103188
The expansion of additive manufacturing or 3D printing as a novel (re)production method disrupts social consumption patterns and challenges existing conceptualisations of tour...

Daydream@Creative Leadership

Presentation / Conference
Cochrane, R. (2021, March)
Daydream@Creative Leadership. Presented at Creativity in Leadership and Learning, Online
In August 2021 secondary schools across Scotland will pilot the new Creative Thinking qualification. This will be resourced and supported by Daydream Believers. You are invite...

Creativity is the ONLY answer

Presentation / Conference
Cochrane, R. (2021, March)
Creativity is the ONLY answer. Presented at Creativity in Leadership and Learning event, Online
There are known knowns in life - ice-cream on a summer’s day makes you happy or a blanket in front of the fire in winter is comforting. Another of these known knowns is creati...

Uncertainty in Entrepreneurship

Presentation / Conference
Cochrane, R. (2021, February)
Uncertainty in Entrepreneurship. Presented at Design Entrepreneurship Series, Maynooth University, Ireland
Uncertainty. The power and risk of working with the unknown. Ruth will be drawing on her experience as a designer for Tannoy, Linn, Aston Martin and her company Love Scotland,...

Creative Assessment

Presentation / Conference
Cochrane, R. (2020, November)
Creative Assessment. Presented at Edinburgh College Research, Innovation & Improvement Project Forum, Online
This paper focuses on students’ use of a novel programme-focused feedback tool we have developed and utilised across Product Design at Edinburgh Napier University. In the cont...

Daydream Believers and a Qualification in Creative Thinking

Presentation / Conference
Cochrane, R. (2020, October)
Daydream Believers and a Qualification in Creative Thinking. Presented at Fusion Cities 2 (Virtual) City of London Corporation, London [Online]
What if there was a Higher/A Level in Creative Thinking?
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Inverewe Night Trail - Follow-On Voucher

2018 - 2020
This project is to develop innovative system of creative lighting and projection to underpin a new tourism initiative at NTS Inverewe Gardens.
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £20,006

My Bonnie Coo

2018 - 2018
The aim of this project is to design and prototype a new, flatpack, low carbon home accessory for the Scottish tourist, domestic and export markets, using an eco-friendly alternative to medium density...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £4,958

Ocean Plastic: Developing a Model for localised Remanufacturing

2018 - 2019
The objective of this research study is to develop a prototype model for gathering and reusing ocean plastic in-situ. The proposal is to visit a number of beachside locations along the Scottish West C...
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £9,988

FutureJewels - Playfully Interactive Wearables for Health and Wellbeing

2018 - 2018
The project focuses on the creation of responsive, wearable objects that create playful interactions by sensing bodily and environmental stimuli, and expressing these through activating elements that ...
Funder: Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum vzw | Value: £2,256

Towards sustainable textiles – can fungi be used to produce useful textile materials?

2018 - 2018
The textile industry is based largely on the use of cotton, leather and oil derived polymers and these industries are resource intensive and not sustainable. For example, cotton production requires va...
Funder: Edinburgh Innovations Ltd | Value: £7,500

Deaf Heritage: Scotland’s Hidden Culture

2018 - 2020
The first BSL National Plan (due 22 October 2017) and its mandate for the inclusion of Deaf Culture in Scottish public life provide the context and rationale for the proposed collaborative networking ...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £18,740

The Wee Tie Company: Innovation Voucher

2018 - 2018
Development of a working prototype for the "Wee Tie", a new fashion accessory for wearing with open-necked shirts. Our input will be to look at materials and fastening/adjusting mechanisms at the back...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

BellyPhants Innovation Voucher

2017 - 2017
This project takes a new approach to teaching Mindful-breathing techniques to children aged 4-9. Diagnosis of anxiety, stress, depression and ADHD in children has seen a significant increase over the...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £4,934

Chronicling Empire: Scottish Albums in Colonial Southeast Asia

2017 - 2018
The proposed research project seeks to examine the ways colony-based photographers represented and celebrated the success of the colonial-based enterprises in Southeast Asian at the turn of the 20th c...
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £7,446

Innovative Lighting Solutions for Smart Textile Production

2017 - 2017
The project will develop specialised lighting systems appropriate for lighting woven optical fibre, develop lighting capacity as an integrated component, and advance large scale commercial manufacture...
Funder: Heriot Watt University | Value: £45,749